Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > On Thu 02 Feb 2012 15:44, Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm considering the idea of trying to contribute some Scheme code to >> guile, and I'm running into some issues with emails, patches, git and >> the such. >> >> What's the common setup you people use ? > > I use git, from the command line and from Emacs. When I use it from > Emacs, I use magit: http://philjackson.github.com/magit/ > > I mostly use magit to commit, and otherwise the command line to update, > rebase, etc. I use gitk sometimes to get a graphical representations of > "the big picture". > > When I make a patch and want to mail it, I use magit to commit it with a > nice log. Then on the command-line I do "git format-patch > origin/stable-2.0..HEAD" and that spits out one file for each commit I > made that is not in upstream stable-2.0. I then attach them to mails.
FWIW, 100% snap! Neil